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Once again, more than160,000 French people took to the streets last weekend to demonstrate against the tightening of the Corona rules. Calls for "freedom" and calling French President Macron a "tyrant" were heard.

In May and June alone, a total of 109 journalists were charged in Turkey, four of them were convicted, and five other journalists were physically assaulted by the police. Although the number of imprisoned journalists is decreasing and the government is introducing more liberal reforms, according to the report by Expression Interrupted, freedom of the press and freedom of expression in Turkey are not in good shape.

We are publishing an unofficial translation of a publication by the Frente de Defensa de Luchas del Pueblo (FDLP-EC) - Front of Defence of the People's Struggles from Ecuador, that was sent to us.

Since fewer and fewer people are getting vaccinated against the Corona virus, bourgeois politicians feel compelled to threaten to tighten Corona measures for the unvaccinated. The reason for this is said to be the threat of a new "wave" of contagions in autumn, even in the face of rising infection figures.

Paintings have been found across Brazil in support of the revolutionary peasant movement led by the Liga dos Camponeses Pobres (LCP). Some of the paintings also support the current protests with millions of demonstrators against the government of Bolsonaro. The slogans are:

In the following we want to give a brief overview on some recent actions against the old Indian state, which are supposed to be carried out by the People´s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) [CPI (Maoist)].

On July 20, in Colombia, there were mobilizations throughout the country to which comrades made a video that we want to draw attention to.

The bourgeois French government has decided that proof of a negativeCorona test or a full vaccination will become compulsory if people want to go to the cinema, museums or other places with more than 50 people, for example. From August, this obligation will also be extended to visits to cafés, restaurants and large shopping centres.